corners of the senate foreign relations committee will he get the most difficult questions?y of them are republican. bill: he will get difficult questions from all corners of the committee, all the way up to the chairman, bob corker, and the ranking member menendez from new jersey. there is bipartisan frustration with the president's foreign policy and the access they feel they have not had to pompeo since he became secretary of state in april. it is a feeling that people still do not know exactly what went on in the two plus hours that president trump met one-on-one with vladimir putin. for the senate, this is their first chance to have someone sitting in front of them who and leave and continue answering questions for potentially hours. wiser: will we be any later on today, following the , about any of our national security concerns? bill: i think a lot of people, both republicans and democrats, are very keen to understand what is president trump's strategy. ,articularly with russia because in recent months you have heard the president saying and hisg administration, many

on the senate foreign relations committee, we want to know the answers to these questions. what specific topics did you discuss? what were the suggestions that president putin made to you? did you discuss any changes to international security agreements? if so, what are they? did you advocate for the extradition of the 12 russian intelligence officers indicted last friday? did you make any commitments about the u.s. role regarding syria? did you press russia to return to compliance with inf treaty and halt its nuclear threats against europe? did you discuss u.s. sections on russia, including caps off sanctions? if so, what did you agree to? did you call on president putin to withdraw from crimea and eastern ukraine so it could return to the sovereign government of ukraine? did you discuss nato military exercises scheduled for this fall? and did you agree to roll back and change the nature of those exercises? discuss u.s. security assistance ukraine and make any concessions regarding their continuation? what if anything did you commit to? i simply say the secretary of state

secretary of state mike pompeo is about to appear in the next 90 minutes or so before the senate foreign relations committeeere he is expected to face serious questions on north korea, russia, and iran. talking about it with senators on the foreign relations committee, both side of the political aisle and now the power panel. stay close. at the lexus golden opportunity sales event. get up to $2500 customer cash on select 2018 nx 300 models. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. who would have guessed? an energy company helping cars emit less. making cars lighter, it's a good place to start, advanced oils for those hard-working parts. fuels that go further so drivers pump less. improving efficiency is what we do best. energy lives here. your insurance rates skyrocket you could fix it with a pen. improving efficiency is what we do best. how about using that pen to sign up for new insurance instead? for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise their rates because of their first accident. switch and you could save $782 on home and auto insurance. call for a free quote today. liberty mutu

let's talk about this and more with senator ben cardin, top democrat on the foreign relations committeenator, how were you going to protect americans from this kind of intrusion? >> well, wolf, it's good to be with you. i authored a report on behalf of the senate foreign relations committee six months ago that pointed out this is exactly what mr. putin is doing in russia. he's using cyber and he's using social media in order to get information to use against our country and people in our country. so we shouldn't be surprised with this revelation. what our report urged is we take steps within social media to protect against foreign interference in america. european countries have already started to do this. the united states has been slow in dealing with the social media companies to make sure this type of intrusion doesn't happen against americans. >> let's turn, senator, the president's overseas trip. he's meeting with nato allies in brussels today, which he kicked off with this tweet. i'll read to you. what good is nato if germany is paying russia billions of dollars for gas and energ

foreign policy discussion that we have with the senator. what do you think happens next after we heard from secretary of state mike pompeo this week before the senate foreign relations committee? guest: i think as the senator indicated there is greater interest that certainly public interest in the senate, maybe some in the house as well, about not holding the white house accountable. at least asking more questions publicly about arrangements, deelings, conversations the president is having. and i think the fact that it took a while for pompeo to come to the senate at all and he declined a similar invitation to the house suggests that the white house is now more willing to do that. i think one thing that happens next is that we will continue to see a push and pull including from republicans who want more answers. host: the poll from republicans include getting the translater who was in the room with the president either behind closed doors or in a committee hearing to hear what she heard in that private meeting? guest: that was definitely something the democrats were seeking more so i think from the republicans. so that is on the table. i do think there is desire as the senat

about his exchanges it must have been what three to four hours he was speaking for the senate foreign relations committee what was said. well mike pompei was faced with a tough questioning in the senate foreign relations committee and he was essentially forced to reveal a secret deal made between trump and putin last week in helsinki but in general pump aoe held his ground occasionally snapping back once or twice assuring everybody that trump did not show any weakness but check out what else happened which has been the same to steadily raise the cost of aggression with aggression until vladimir putin chooses a less confrontational foreign policy otherwise the administration will continue imposing tough actions against russia in response to its malign activities and i personally make clear to the russians that will be severe consequences for interference in our democratic processes in helsinki we sought to explore whether russia was interesting and we're proving our relationship made clear that the ball is in russia's court. pump air also reiterated that trump agrees with the intelligence community's asse

if you listened to the hearing in the senate foreign relations committee, mike pompeo tried to point out american policies have not changed. yet, the president's language was a lot different than that. the first thing we need to know is what happened in that room? what understandings were reached between president trump and putin? we still don't know that. when we are talking about a follow-up meeting between the leaders, you need to understand what understandings were reached in helsinki. the follow-up meeting is to take the agreements and make progress on it. we don't know what those agreements are about. second point, it is a lot different meeting with a leader of russia in a neutral site such as helsinki, been here in the u.s. -- and then here in the u.s. it is hard to understand why the invitation was extended. >> you called it a disaster. i know that you and many of your colleagues spent a good bit of the hearing the other day trying to get mike pompeo to tell you more about what happened between president putin and trump. are you satisfied that mike pompeo knows what happened?

mr pompeo‘s declaration came shortly before he gave evidence to the senate foreign relations committee defended the privacy of president trump's talks with mr putin. i want to show this committee the united states does not and will not recognise the kremlin‘s purported annexation of crimea. we stand with many in our commitment to the ukraine and its territorial integrity and there will be no relief of crimea related sanctions until russia returns control of the crimean peninsula to ukraine. meanwhile threats of a trade war between the united states and the european union appear to have vanished after a meeting at the white house on wednesday. european commission president jean—claudejuncker met donald trump to discuss tariffs, after the us president said america was losing out because of unfair deals. it led to him putting tariffs on steel and metal imports in may. andrew plant reports. ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states and the president of the european commission. donald trump and jean—claude juncker. after months commission. donald trump and jean—claudejuncker.

mr pompeo has been giving evidence to the senate foreign relations committee.reversals in american foreign policy. a series of measures to try to avert an all—out trade war have been agreed by the united states and the european union. after talks at the white house with the eu commission president jean—claude juncker, mr trump claimed a new phase in their trade relations had begun. 80 people are now known to have died in the wildfires around athens — they are the deadliest ever recorded in greece. and dozens of people are still missing. survivors have been describing their desperate battles to escape now on bbc news, it's time for click.

mike am pale is testified before the senate foreign relations committee right now.n cabinet. i would like to ask questions to understand what actually happened. whathe president told you he and president putin discussed in the two-hour closed-door meeting in helsinki? >> you can put your microphone up. >> i'm sorry. >> i'm confident you have had private one-on-one meetings as well, those that -- those settings as the most efficient -- >> i will ask -- youid you, did he tell whether or not, what happened in the two hours? >> yesterday it implied some notion there was in it -- something improper having a one-on-one meeting and i completely disagree or >> i didn't ask. i asked a simple question. did he tell you what transpired -- >> i had a number of conversations with president trump about what transpired in the meeting and was also present when he and president putin both gave a sense of what they discussed in the meeting that followed immediately after and also had a chance to speak with surrogate twice about what takes place. i think i have a complete understanding

we begin with with mike pompeo who appeared before the senate foreign relations committee. e nearly three-hour hearing included several tense back-and-forths between pompeo and senators from both sides of the aisle on topics including russia and north korea and generally overall foreign policy. >> has the president told you what he and president putin discussed in their two-hour closed-door meeting in helsinki? >> presidents have the choice to attend -- >> i just asked a simple question. you can't eat up my seven minutes, mr. secretary. did he tell you whether or not -- what happened in those two hours? >> yes. the prepping of your question implied there was something improper about having a one-on-one meeting. >> i just asked a simple he question. did he tell you what transpired in the meeting? >> i had a number of conversations with president trump about what transpired in the meeting. i was present when with he and president putin gave us a sense of what they discussed. i had a chance to speak with sergei lavrov on the russian view of what took place. i have a complete un

they feel like it's their role to bring the secretary of state in front of the senate foreign relations committee to see what the president was up to policy wise. >> well, peter baker, it seems like the senate republicans, if they're crafty and clever, could call vladamir putin and ask him for the recording that a lot of intelligence experts believe exist on the part of the russians for that meeting. do you have any sense that the white house is aware of the fact that they were likely gamed by the russians? >> well, look, i would be surprised if there wasn't a recording of it. b >> explain why. i mean, why? vladamir putin is a former kgb agent. people that know vladamir putin understand that, but explain for our viewers of course there is a recording. >> i lived there for four years and they have recordings of things that happened in my apartment. if they taped things in my apartment, i'm sure they taped things from vladamir putin and the things said to president trump. the question is whether or not john bolton or staff went to the translator, our translator, the american translator and got a re

i want to bring in senator bob menendez, the ranking member of the senate foreign relations committeewe're showing senator some of these live pictures coming in. this class photo. what do you think about the president's news today? he's saying the nato allies shouldn't just be spending 2% of their gdp on defense, they need to spend 4% of their gdp on defense. what's your reaction? >> well, first of all, the united states doesn't even spend 4% of gdp on defense. so i think it's just a part of his parlor game of what he thinks is a way to get nato to spend more money. what the president mistakenly says is that, first of all, there's no nato ally that's in arrears. everybody is paying what they should be paying at this point. the 2% goal is supposed to be accomplished by 2024. eight countries are already accomplishing that this year. no one in arrears. and they started spending more before president trump cam along when they saw the invasion of crimea by russia. so the bottom line is, what strikes me, wolf, as someone who has met with many of the foreign ministers of these countries and

administration has about this -- >> we are going to break away from this contentious senate foreign relations committee herring and go to the white house rose garden and where president trump and jean claude junker are about to speak. >> i appreciate our great senators and so many of the representatives for being here. senator john boseman? john, you're here some place. hi, john. thank you. senator mike crappo. thank you, mike. senator steve danes. senator hoeven. thank you. they're all here. senator cindy hyde-smith. thank you very much. senator james lankford. james? thank you, james. senator pat roberts. he loves those farms. he loves the farmers like i do. representative diane black. diane, thank you. representative kevin brady. with our new tax bill. how's it coming, kevin? good? representative mike conaway. mike? thank you, mike. representative dan newhouse. thank you, dan. representative christie norm. i have to call her governor now. that was a great win you. that you, christie. representative david reicher. david, thank you. so we had a big day. very big. we met right here at the white house t

and you mentioned the republican chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, bob corker. he just laid it all out there from the beginning, starting with this striking criticism of not only president trump, saying that he creates distrust in america and beyond, but also of his entire administration. i mean, corker said that he feels that the trump white house wakes up every morning and just makes up foreign policy, as they go. saying this to the secretary of state, mike pompeo, who was absolutely on the defensive. so, remember, this was the big chance for all of these senators to finally get some answers, on what exactly happened between president trump and russian president vladimir putin during this two-hour-long closed-door meeting in helsinki. but time after time, pompeo just would not answer these questions, often with this snarky attitude, saying these were private conversations. even the simplest question, did trump tell you what happened? the best pompeo could muster was that he has a pretty complete understanding of the conversation. listen to some of this exchang

i watched secretary pompeo come to the senate foreign relations committee and testify as such before congress. that people who work for president trump do not set u.s. policy. the president does. and, the president has made it clear over and over that nato is temporarily functionally irrelevant. that sounds like a radical thing to say, but let's just admit it is true for the time being. trump has made it crystal clear that if russia ever perpetuated a ukraine-style attack on a nato country, one that was in plain sight for everybody to see but that was officially denied by the kremlin -- does that sound familiar question mark that is what happened in ukraine. clear russian invasion but officially denied by the kremlin. ?ound familiar 2016 attacks on american elections are for everyone to see, denied by the kremlin. happened on aer trump hasry, telegraphed to russia that if you simply deny the invasion or the attack, we will be leave you not our own government. not our own intelligence and security agencies. that is what he told them today and that is likely what would happen of europe

this is a live look at the senate foreign relations committee hearing. while senators are expected to ask about a host of issues, lawmakers will likely focus on what happened in helsinki, what happened in singapore and what's going on with iran? joining us now to talk more about this, jane harman, former six-term democratic congresswoman from california. >> nine-term. >> nine-term! she ran for three extra terms while we weren't watching. jane, i was just trying to make it not look like you were as experienced as you are. >> a young person like me, how could i have served that long. >> michael fukes is a former deputy assistant secretary of state. jane, let me start with you. you have given mike pompeo a fair amount of the benefit of the doubt. there are a lot of people who said whether you like him more or less than tillerson, pompeo does seem to have the trust and faith of the president. nobody in any other part of the world wants to deal with somebody, no matter what their title, if they don't feel like that person is speaking on behalf of the presiden

happened in those two hours when the president was alone with mr putin i believe the senate foreign relations committee should hold a hearing with the american translator who was present during president tramps and president putin's private meeting to determine what was specifically discussed and agreed to on the united states behalf now this all comes at despite agreement reached upon so we're just going to have to see if a domestic backlash hinders russia u.s. relations i think we have a mainstream media and we have the military industrial complex whose goal it is to shame him in any way possible when he speaks against their agendas now he was right to challenge the military industrial complex of which the intelligence apparatus is one part one very important and very expensive part but the fact that he then turned tail and apologize just shows that he lacks the backbone for this job it's going to help if trump can actually use what he said which was right he was right to call the intelligence community and into question because of their bad intelligence we are stuck in one nonsensical quagmire after

mike pompeo is expected to testify before the senate foreign relations committee and answer questions about that. the state department plans to update congress on negotiations with north korea. tomorrow the secretary travels to united nations headquarters in new york to discuss north korea talks with japanese and south korean officials and russia is now suggesting the united nations security council considered easing sanctions against north korea. the us and its allies disagree. >> we remain firm the security counsel sanctions placed upon north korea for its nuclear and missile provocations will remain in place and be faithfully implemented. >> the trump administration says it refuses to (sanctions but it has avoided additional sanctions against north korea. as long as it negotiates in good faith. secretary pompeo says earlier this week north korea agreed to return the remains of some us service members from the korean war. the secretary says that transfer is expected in the next couple weeks. >> today the white house recused the nomination of one of donald trump's judicial pyxis minu

we're actually going to see the senate foreign relations committee chairman right here, bob corker. senator, what is your reaction to the delay of this putin meeting? >> i think it's great. >> reporter: do you think -- >> i'll have a better reaction in a few minutes. >> we have to maintain the hallways, come on. everybody get back against the wall, please. >> it's a little bit of a mosh pit here. >> we're still with you. >> reporter: but you can hear corker say it was a good idea to delay the meeting. that idea of having the second meeting came under fierce criticism, brooke, from both parties concerned because they are still unclear exactly what the president agreed to behind close to doers. even some of the key committees on capitol hill have not been briefed about exactly what happened here. earlier i talked to mark warner, the senate xlenlintelligence committee chairman, who told me he was not briefed on his committee despite being overruled by the intelligence committee. take a listen. >> you guys haven't gotten a briefing? >> we have not, no. i think the foreign relations comm

appreciate you characterizing my questions my pompei of face some tough questioning in the senate foreign relations committee he was essentially forced into revealing a secret deal made between trump and putin just last week in helsinki but in general come pale held his ground occasionally snapping back once or twice to assure everyone that trump did not show any weakness or approach has been the same to steadily raise the cost of aggression with aggression until vladimir putin chooses a less confrontational foreign policy otherwise the administration will continue imposing tough actions against russia in response to its malign activities and i personally make clear to the russians that will be severe consequences for interference in our democratic processes and they'll say keep we sought to explore whether russia was interesting in reproving our relationship but made clear that the ball is in russia's court pompei also reiterated that trump does agree with the intelligence community that russia did hack a b. twenty sixteen election but his sentiments last week were a bit different i have president putin he

counting the days until secretary of state mike pompeo testifies before the senate foreign relations committeet president trump's conversation with vladimir putin in helsinki. what we can expect to learn if that hearing and how it could affect the midterm elections. power panel stays. managing blood sugar is a series of smart choices. and when you replace one meal... ...or snack a day with glucerna... ...made with carbsteady... ...to help minimize blood sugar spikes... ...you can really feel it. now with 30% less carbs and sugars. glucerna. >> coming up on -- we're following latest on the reporting former trump attorney michael cohen said he has on the president before the election about a possible payment to a former playboy model who claim she had an fair with him. we're live in iowa three towns got slammed we tornado that left people little time to take recover. we'll reveal where the next republican national convention will be held. >> secretary of state mike pompeo is set to testify before the senate foreign relations committee next week and we have learned president trump has invited vla

so this week the senate foreign relations committee tried to get that information out of secretary of mike pompeo. but he did not say a word about that one on one meeting. earlier i spoke with senator ben cardin who sits on the foreign relations committee. did you get any insight at all from his testimony on what was discussed in those two hours where these two leaders of various states that have been adversarial, what did they talk about? >> well, we do not have a readout for what happened in the room, mr. pompeo would hide behind the fact that he said that no policies have been changed. but he didn't exactly tell us what was discussed or even what subjects were discussed in the one on one meeting. he did go over some general areas that were talked about, but he did not give us a real readout on the so-called agreements that were reached and why there would be a need for a follow-up meeting as early as this fall. he did not really give us much comfort in that regard. >> isn't that alarming given that we're dealing with the whole question of russian interference in the elections of 20

senator bob corker of tennessee is the chairman of the foreign relations committee, our live coverage beginning right now here on c-span3. >>> as we wait for the senate foreign relations committee meeting to get under way, an article from politico saying president donald trump will not host russian president vladimir putin in washington until 2019. that is according to politic ol, white house national security adviser john bolton said today because it's mr. trump's preference not to do so until, quote, the russia witch hunt is over, close quote. the president believes the next bilateral meeting with over." believes it should take place after the russia witch hunt is over so we agreed it will be after the first of the year mr. bolton said in a statement distributed through the white house press pool. trump has referred to the investigation as a witch hunt and no public indication that mr. mueller will do so by the end of year. that from politico. wouldn't be surprised to see that question come up in the hearing with mike pompeo scheduled to get under way any moment now. >>> woe're wait

we had the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee bob corker expressing support for nato and a little bit of concern how the president has been handling the meetings with u.s. allies. listen in. >> the rhetoric to me is just damaging to us and damaging to others unnecessarily. i absolutely agree on the substance. i think there are ways of communicating with your friends. times we punch our friends in the nose and hold our hand out to those against us. >> reporter: yesterday, you saw the president's staff appearing disspirited about the comments on germany in particular. you saw john kelly shifting in his seat and looking away as the president made the comments. the ambassador with similar body language there. the white house press secretary sarah sanders addressed the chief of staff's body language saying john kelly was displeased because he was expecting a full breakfast because there were only pastries and cheese. >> jeremy, thank you. i think it is subjective when you are reading body language. they are on an all-night flight. cameras flashing. >> you can read our body

democratic senator is joining us, a member of the foreign relations committee. thanks for joining us. >> it is good to be with you. >> do you believe the twitter habit has exposed him potentially to some legal jeopardy? >> i have a great deal of confidence in the mueller investigation. i'm not going to try to second guess the timing or what's going to be done. i know there is a treasure-trove of information that they are looking at. the president, of course, was attempting to do certain things. whether he crossed the line or not i will leave that up to mr. mueller. >> are there specific tweets that point potentially to obstruction of justice or witness intimidation? >> as you know, obstruction of justice is when you intentionally try to interfere with an independent investigation or interfere with the witnesses or make it clear that you're going to do things that will make it difficult for that investigation to go forward. so certainly there have been incredible number of tweets by the president, statements by the president that i'm sure are of interest to mr. m

has had his own run-ins with this administration but the chair of the foreign relations committee. >> you come before a group of senators today who are filled with serious doubts about this white house and its conduct of american foreign policy. the administration tells us don't worry, be patient, there's a strategy here, but from where we sit, it appears that in a ready, fire, aim fashion, the white house is waking up every morning and making it up as they go. >> cornell, when i read corker's statement and then went -- opening statement, they released that early and then i looked. is this menendez's or corker's statement. >> corker is free now because he's apparently not running anymore so he's free to act like you would expect a senator to act. >> we have a new game show coming up about republicans running or retiring based on sound. >> our country was attacked and russia is a serious threat and americans are growing in their concern about russia, particularly after this summit. so it's good to see senator corker acting -- putting a check on this. i wish that more republican senators would, because that's the only way

take a listen to bob corker, the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. >> so without trying to tear down an alliance that's been important to the security of americans. >> are you worried that that's happening? tearing down an alliance. >> i do worry. it has been happening. >> obviously, the point that nato countries need to be paying more defense, something we all agree on and previous presidents have made the point, obama, bush. should be this commitment. they should meet the commitment by 2024. here you have bob corker talking about how president trump tearing down an alliance. >> yeah. listen. so it's no surprise senator corker and this president have not gotten along very well during his tenure. senator corker's not running for re-election because of i think probably losing in tennessee quite frankly running again and the president has not done anything to step away from article 5 and mutual -- the president is there fighting for america. the eu roughly $150 billion trade surplus. stack on top of that 28 member countries of nato not paying a fair share, not even close,

fox news alert, secretary of state mike pompeo getting ready to testify before the senate foreign relations committee this afternoon. he sure to face questions on the president strategy on north korea and iran, and also during what that meeting with vladimir putin. >> if there were many things that came from what i view as are critically important meeting between the president trump and president putin, one that i think the world will have benefited from when history is written. and that's this administration pushing back between russia and malign behavior around the world. >> and there's more pushback against the president's bid invitation for vladimir putin to visit this fall. they say they don't object to the presence talks with putin but they are making it clear that he won't be invited to capitol hill. >> i can only speak for the congress, but it's clear that putin will not be welcome here at the capitol. >> we must certainly not being giving him an invitation to have a joint session because that's something we reserve for allies. what i think matters, and then i support that. but it's a message

he's the top democrat on the senate foreign relations committee. ome back to "fox news sunday," senator. >> senator menendez: good to be with you. >> bret: a lot has been made obviously about this meeting in the news conference in helsinki, but here's what the president said this week about actual u.s. policy after this. >> look at the sanctions i have put on. it look at the diplomats i threw out. look at all of the things that i've done. obama didn't do it. if obama was a patsy for russia. he was a total patsy. it look at the statement he made where he said the mics were turned off. a stupid statement he made. >> bret: senator, do you think u.s. policy towards russia was tougher under the obama administration or under the trump administration? >> senator menendez: certainly president obama created the european determinants initiative after russia invaded, annexed crimea. he recommitted to the 2008 commitments nato made to having georgia be part of nato once they were ready and developed. he actually imposed a series of sanctions supported by the fr

that he doesn't deserve. >> on that point, secretary pompeo will be in front of the senate foreign relations committee oath, answering a bunch of questions about what he knows about what was discussed behind closed doors between trump and putin. he said just said, kwone, i thi the world will have benefited from when history books written. that's how he described the summit, something the world will have benefited from and history books will reflect that. would you agree? >> he is an employee working for a boss and he has to say what the boss wants him to say. i don't think there is any person on either side of the aisle, democrats or republicans, that think any of the things that happened in helsinki were good for america or tough on russia. it's hard to imagine that anything other than bad history will be written about that. >> bill, i should just note, when it comes to politics, people said, yeah, yeah, he's been a big contributor of hillary clinton's campaign, you say, you have not contributed to political campaigns. correct? >> zero. i've made zero political contributions to hillary clinton or any

. >>> this afternoon, the senate foreign relations committee will publicly grill secretary of state mike pompeo about president trump's closed-door meeting in helsinki with vladimir putin. now, details about that face-to-face encounter are still unknown nine days later. president trump now insisting he is very concerned the russians will be fighting hard to interfere in the upcoming election. here's the twist. see there, the president claims russia will be pushing for the democrats because they definitely don't want trump. that's not what putin said in helsinki. >> president putin, did you want president trump to win the election and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that? >> translator: yes, i did. yes, i did. >> the russians have now accepted the president's invitation for a meeting in washington at the end of this year. in a just-released quinnipiac poll, voters called the helsinki summit a failure by a nearly 2-1 margin over those who felt it was a success. and when asked if the president was acting in the best interests of the united states, voters said no by a 54%

so whether he will stand up as the senate foreign relations committee just voted that ukraine and crimea, that the invasion and annexation of crimea a, the continuing action in ukraine is something that has to continue to be sanctioned, whether or not he will move back on our nato exercises, whether or not he would give up on syria in a way that will affect the region, i'm seriously concerned about the things that he may agree to with putin because he wants a relation ship with putin that goes far beyond a relationship with any of our allies. >> you heard theresa may say that she is supportive of this summit with putin. are you supportive of it, are you glad at least that it is happening? >> i'm not glad when the president says about putin that he is a competitor. putin is not a competitor. he is an adversary at best and in my opinion a foe. anyone who tries to undermine your country as he does in the elections and substantiated by the intelligence agencies, it is not a meeting in which you think you have a competitor. you have someone trying to undermine your democracy. so you need to n

that's one of the reasons the senate foreign relations committee asked secretary of state mike pompeo to stop by and testify at a hearing this afternoon. >> we really need a clear understanding as to what is going on, what our president is agreeing to, and what our strategy is on a number of issues. last week president trump held a summit with vladimir putin. in the summit's aftermath we saw an american president who appeared submissive and deferential. did he tell what you transpired? >> i had a number of conversations with the president about what transpired. i think i have a pretty good understanding. >> that was how it started. the secretary offered no clarity on the scope of any agreements that were reached during the trump/putin one on one. he did however try to put an end to concerns that the president seemed to side with russia over u.s. intelligence on election interference. >> i want you to know president trump has stated that he accepts our intelligence community's conclusion that russia meddled in the 2016 election. he has a complete and proper understanding of what happen

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katty: you are a ranking member on the senate foreign relations committee. you have seen a iot of informabout the state of russian relations and activitied around the w. riuld you agree with president trump's charaction that during the course of four hours, he managed to take the america-russia relatiorship from the it has ever been to something much better? sen. cardin: we certainly want a relationship with russia, but we want it on our terms, not mr. putin's terms. we have got to be very clear that russia is an adversary. they have violated the sovereignty of states -- the ing backrecently, but to georgia, moldova. they haved attacee election systems not just in the united states but also in europe. clwe have got to br that what mr. putin is doing in russia is against our national security ireerests. theyn adversary. we want a relationship. we want that relationship based on honesty and trust, not mr. putin's terms. mptty: you are clearly not happy with the way mr. ts handling this, but what can democrats do about it? you are pretty powerless to change the

senator bob menendez, top democrat on the senate foreign relations committee, signed that letter. he joins me now. i so appreciate you taking the time. let's start with the obvious. one, do you believe you have the power to subpoena her, and what do you want to know from marina gross? >> we definitely -- i believe the committee has the power to do it. whether we can get our republican colleagues to join us is a question. but we want to have a real independent sense of what transpired for well over two hours between president trump and president putin, because the performance in public that took place, which i believe was shameful and a day of infamy in terms of our foreign policy -- >> a day of infamy? >> yes. here we had an american president who was an supplicant who is the russian president who is a thug, who continues to try to undermine our democratic processes and our elections. so for me to have a president who on foreign soil undermines the credibility of our fbi, of our intelligence bureaus, our department of justice, is beyond belief. and so we need to know what happened

the secretary scheduled to appear before the senate foreign relations committee next wednesday in an open session. data from from a richardson noh more on why pompeo is so important for untangling what went down in helsinki. >> the white house is objecting a white house to question michael mcfaul, american born investor, bill browder, and several other citizens. after acknowledging that president trump discuss that with vladimir putin in helsinki and was working with his team of the issue, white house white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders is in a statement, "it was their proposal that was made in sincerity by president putin but president trump disagrees with it. was go that follow state department spokesperson heather nauert who criticize that idea. >> i can't criticize the white house without but i can tell you that the overall assertions that have come out of the russian government are absolutely absurd. the fact that they want to question 11 american citizens and the assertions that the russian government is making about those american citizens. >> democrats and repu

was being questioned by the senate foreign relations committee but also faced scathing criticism for the administration's changing position on russia state department correspondent lyndal reports. when u.s. secretary of state mike pompei of the hearing room he knew what was coming criticism of president donald trump's recent closed door meeting with russian president vladimir putin i think your paper tremendous faith in madness but it's the president's actions. that create tremendous distrust pompei of this response demonstrate just how tough the administration has already been on russia over two hundred sanctions.

the secretary of state appeared before the senate foreign relations committee. ators have had a chance to question the secretary since both the singapore and helsinki summits. the hearing included several back and forths on topics including russia, north korea, and policy in other places, as well. >> has the president told you what he and president putin discussed in their two-hour closed door meeting in helsinki? >> the presidents have a prerogative to whose who is in meetings or not. i'm sure you've had -- >> i just asked you a simple question. did you -- did he tell you whether or not what happened in those two hours? >> yes. the predicate of your question implied some notion that there was something improper about having a one-on-one meeting. i completely disagree. >> i didn't ask you a predicate. i asked you a simple question and i hope we're going to get through it. did he tell you what transpired in the meeting? >> i had a number of conversations about what transfire pier transfire -- transpired in the meeting. i think i have a pretty complete understandin